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38% Favor Banning Hate Speech Offenders From Public Office - Demographic Details

38% Favor Banning Hate Speech Offenders From Public Office
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National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted November 13-14, 2019 By The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports
  Total Gender Age Race Party Ideology Education Income Employment Should federal or state governments ban speech by individuals that a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist? Should those who violate such bans against offensive speech be punished with jail time? Should those who say or write things a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist, be banned from holding public office?
LV's Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ White Black Hispanic Other Republican Democrat Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not sure Attended HS Did Not Grad HS Graduate Attended College Did Not Complete College Grad Grad School Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Private Co. Retired Other Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure
Should federal or state governments ban speech by individuals that a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist? Yes 27% 23% 30% 37% 21% 20% 23% 35% 39% 27% 22% 37% 19% 24% 25% 35% 12% 39% 28% 27% 27% 24% 0% 36% 27% 27% 26% 13% 14% 42% 26% 25% 18% 31% 100% 0% 0% 100% 100% 100% 49% 12% 17%
No 50% 57% 43% 47% 54% 42% 51% 45% 43% 54% 56% 37% 58% 57% 48% 42% 36% 20% 44% 50% 52% 55% 31% 38% 49% 52% 51% 73% 45% 44% 52% 56% 49% 41% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 29% 76% 25%
Not sure 24% 20% 27% 15% 25% 38% 26% 20% 18% 20% 22% 25% 23% 19% 27% 23% 53% 41% 28% 23% 21% 21% 69% 26% 24% 21% 23% 14% 41% 14% 22% 19% 33% 28% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 22% 12% 57%
Answered only by those who said gov't should ban speech that a majority of Americans believe to be offensive - 268 voters Total Gender Age Race Party Ideology Education Income Employment Should federal or state governments ban speech by individuals that a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist? Should those who violate such bans against offensive speech be punished with jail time? Should those who say or write things a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist, be banned from holding public office?
LV's Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ White Black Hispanic Other Republican Democrat Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not sure Attended HS Did Not Grad HS Graduate Attended College Did Not Complete College Grad Grad School Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Private Co. Retired Other Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure
Should those who violate such bans against offensive speech be punished with jail time? Yes 48% 56% 43% 60% 42% 23% 44% 58% 55% 37% 49% 46% 52% 59% 38% 45% 52% 43% 54% 34% 49% 55% 0% 45% 45% 58% 44% 36% 25% 62% 49% 43% 29% 59% 48% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 59% 30% 14%
No 35% 29% 39% 29% 36% 53% 35% 32% 35% 32% 36% 38% 24% 33% 37% 36% 0% 28% 31% 44% 32% 35% 0% 37% 38% 26% 39% 44% 61% 24% 43% 37% 48% 22% 35% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 28% 55% 40%
Not sure 17% 15% 19% 12% 22% 24% 20% 10% 10% 31% 15% 15% 24% 8% 25% 19% 48% 29% 15% 22% 19% 10% 0% 18% 17% 16% 18% 20% 14% 14% 8% 20% 23% 19% 17% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 13% 15% 46%
  Total Gender Age Race Party Ideology Education Income Employment Should federal or state governments ban speech by individuals that a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist? Should those who violate such bans against offensive speech be punished with jail time? Should those who say or write things a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist, be banned from holding public office?
LV's Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ White Black Hispanic Other Republican Democrat Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not sure Attended HS Did Not Grad HS Graduate Attended College Did Not Complete College Grad Grad School Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Private Co. Retired Other Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure
Should those who say or write things a majority of Americans believes to be offensive, including speech considered to be racist or sexist, be banned from holding public office? Yes 38% 30% 45% 44% 35% 31% 34% 53% 46% 39% 26% 54% 30% 28% 42% 50% 25% 28% 47% 41% 35% 34% 14% 43% 38% 41% 35% 26% 28% 54% 37% 34% 34% 39% 69% 22% 35% 84% 55% 52% 100% 0% 0%
No 44% 53% 37% 39% 48% 44% 48% 31% 38% 51% 56% 30% 49% 57% 41% 32% 33% 40% 33% 37% 50% 53% 31% 35% 42% 44% 51% 61% 44% 32% 48% 48% 46% 42% 19% 68% 22% 12% 31% 17% 0% 100% 0%
Not sure 18% 17% 19% 16% 16% 24% 19% 16% 16% 11% 18% 16% 20% 16% 17% 18% 42% 32% 20% 23% 15% 13% 56% 22% 20% 15% 14% 13% 28% 14% 15% 18% 20% 19% 12% 9% 43% 3% 13% 31% 0% 0% 100%
Survey Demographics
  Total
LV's
Gender Men 48%
Women 52%
  Total
LV's
Age 18-39 35%
40-64 48%
65+ 17%
  Total
LV's
Race White 70%
Black 12%
Hispanic 13%
Other 5%
  Total
LV's
Party Republican 33%
Democrat 37%
Other 30%